DeSantis Investigating 37,000 Abortion Amendment Petitions after Reports of Fake Signatures

Calvin Freiburger : Sep 12, 2024
LifeSiteNews.com

Florida officials are suspicious of 37,000 petitions submitted in support of the radical pro-abortion Amendment 4 after evidence surfaced that some names of dead people and individuals who did not support the campaign were signed.

(Tallahassee, FL) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The Florida Office of Election Crimes & Security is investigating tens of thousands of petitions submitted in support of a ballot initiative to codify abortion-on-demand in the Florida Constitution, citing concerns that a "substantial number of voter signature forgeries were submitted" by the initiative's proponents. (Screengrab image: via Florida's Voice)

Amendment 4, the so-called "Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion," states that "no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's healthcare provider." If enacted, it would require abortion to be allowed for any reason before fetal "viability" and render post-"viability" bans effectively meaningless by exempting any abortion that an abortionist claims is for "health" reasons. Direct abortion is always gravely immoral and is never needed nor justifiable to protect a mother's health.

If successful, Amendment 4 would overturn Florida's six-week abortion ban.

READ: Catholic teaching is clear: Voting for a pro-abortion measure is a mortal sin

The amendment ostensibly says that it "does not change the Legislature's constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion." But DeSantis has warned that "there's a difference between consent and notification. Notification is after the fact. The consent is obviously a condition precedent. They did that because they know going after parents' rights is a vulnerability."

Florida's Voice reports that investigators are looking into signatures from "nearly 37,000 submitted petitions" gathered by 35 individuals, following examples of the signatures of dead people and non-matching signatures, as well as reports from people who did "not sign the petition forms submitted in their names"—including a personnel member in the Osceola County Supervisor of Elections... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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